Improvement in handles for boat-hooks



"To cllwhom itmay clmccrn:` v f @wat @wie N amistad FRANCIS F. BIBBER, 0F BOSTON, MSSACHUSETTS.

j 'Lam Pamela. 103,007, dated May 17,1870.

IMPROVEMENTIN HANDLEs'roR noA'r-nooxs, am.

` The Schedule referred. to in these Letters Patent:v and making part of the same Be it known that LFAucis F. Brenna, lof Boston,

in `thecounty of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have 'invented iulymproved` Handle `for Boat-Hooks, y Grappling-Hooks, &c.,fof which the following. is a full,

clear, and exact description, reference being had to theacconlpanyihg drawings making part ofthis specication, in Which-`- 1 y 'g Y Figure 1 is aF perspective view of aAboat-hook provided wit-h a handle `constructed in accordance with my invention. l y i 1, f VFignreZ is asection on the `line x ai of fig. 1.

In using an ordinary boatl1ook at night, considerable dicult'yis frequeiitlyexperlenced on account of its beingsometimes impossible to see the hook at the end of vthe pole or handle, and the object to be caught or hooked is often missed, owing to the wrong side of the hook being presented thereto. ,4

My `invention has for its object to overcome this objection, and consists in making the handle of a peculiar fol-nain cross-section, and so applying the `hook thereto that the shape of the'handle' willgindicate its position, andthe liability of failnreto catch thedesired object be thereby avoided,"while at the Sametime-the hand 'is enabled to grasp the handle more firmly than whereitfis of circular form 1in `cross-.sectionyas heretofore.

'lo enable others .skilled in the art to understand and use my invention, I y willproceed to describe the manner in which I have carried `it out.:

the said drawings j Y both'v being forged in oneV piece, and secured tothe end of the handle A in the ordinarymanner. This handle is of the form, in cross-section, seen infig. 2, being d is the hook, and b thepike or straight portion,jl

l Y ll rounded Aat c, fromwhichv it taperson both sides nearl toa point, d, directly opposite thereto.

VThe hookand pike are so `attached to the handle that the hook will he in line with and onthe same side as the portion d, so that, when the handlel is grasped, the position ofthe hook will be at once indi` cated,.and all liabilityof its being presented on the wrong side, either inapproaching a mooring at night, or in using `the hook under water, and the consequent failure to catch the desired' object, are avoided.

Furthermore, the handle, when shaped as above described, aords a much better and rmer 'grasp for theI -hands than when it is of a-circular form in cross-sec i tion, as heretofore, thus enabling the'person using the boat-hook to exert a greater degree offorce to turnit,

`as is of'tcnrequired after hooking a ropeor other 0bjectl Itis evident-that my improvement may be applied to the handles of hooks to be nsedfunder Waterforgra'ppling and forother purposes, as well as to boat- -l1`ooks\vithout departing from the spirit ofmy invention. i y

Claim.

, What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure v The handle A, made substantiallyas described, forl the purpose of indcatingpthe position of the hook a, as set forth. l

p In testimony whereof I have'hereunto set my hand this 28th day of March, A. D. 1870.

v FRANCIS F. BIBBER.

v Witnesses:

N. W. STEARNS, W. J. CAMBRIDGE. 

